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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] decnet: move to staging
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 07:30:09 +0100
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 Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>, davem@davemloft.net
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Sun, Nov 12, 2017 at 09:02:14PM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
>Support for Decnet has been orphaned for many years.
>In the interest of reducing the potential bug surface and pre-holiday
>cleaning, move the decnet protocol into staging for eventual removal.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

Why not just remove it in the same way tokenring was removed in the
past? I fear that in staging, this will rot forever for no good reason.